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The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

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They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and findi...

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One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpres...

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For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionat...